Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.Collection: Wisdom
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.Collection: Love
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.Collection: Good
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Collection: Time
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.Collection: Truth
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.Collection: Gardening
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.Collection: Morning
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.Collection: Motivational
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.Collection: Education
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Collection: Faith
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.Collection: Love
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.Collection: Inspirational
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.Collection: Death
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.Collection: Wisdom
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.Collection: Gardening
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.Collection: Time
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.Collection: Truth
Facts are many, but the truth is one.Collection: Truth
Age considers; youth ventures.Collection: Age
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.Collection: Love
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.Collection: Freedom
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.Collection: Truth
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.Collection: Time
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.Collection: Life
We live in the world when we love it.Collection: Life
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.Collection: Truth
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.Collection: Nature
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.Collection: Art
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.Collection: Freedom
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.Collection: God
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.Collection: Art
Those who own much have much to fear.Collection: Fear
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.Collection: Friendship
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.Collection: Truth
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.Collection: Courage
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Collection: Life
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.Collection: God
Music fills the infinite between two souls.Collection: Music
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.Collection: Great
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.Collection: Love
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.Collection: Funny
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.Collection: Knowing
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.Collection: Pain